Web & Internet

Overview This article is an introduction to BeautifulSoup 4 in Python. If you want to know more I recommend you to read the official documentation found here. What is Beautiful Soup? Beautiful Soup is a Python library for pulling data out of HTML and XML files. BeautifulSoup 3 or 4? ...

Web Scraping "Web scraping (web harvesting or web data extraction) is a computer software technique of extracting information from websites." HTML parsing is easy in Python, especially with help of the BeautifulSoup library. In this post we will scrape a website (our own) to extract all URL's. Getting Started To ...

Overview In this post we will take a look on how we can download and parse syndicated feeds with Python. The Python module we will use for that is "Feedparser". The complete documentation can be found here. What is RSS? RSS stands for Rich Site Summary and uses standard web ...

Overview Working with APIs is both fun and educational. Many companies like Google, Reddit and Twitter releases it's API to the public so that developers can develop products that are powered by its service. Working with APIs learns you the nuts and bolts beneath the hood. In this post, we ...

Hacker News API – Overview Today I will go through the "Unofficial Python API for Hacker News", which can be found here What is Hacker News? Hacker News is a social news website that caters to programmers and entrepreneurs, delivering content related to computer science and entrepreneurship. [source] Python Wrapper ...